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...seems most likely to me that we'll go to a fixed number of courses or a grade point average," Pipkin said, because with the earlier two-third option "you can take a large number of courses within your concentration requirements and a lot of pass-fail, so that you end up only needing two-thirds of four...
...Faculty motion which created the Committee charged it with "full responsibility" for the disciplining of the students involved. The Faculty, however, will have to approve by a two-third vote any recommendation to dismiss or expel a student...
Rivers is probably already getting pressure from his army friends to do something about a system that will deliver groups of inductees that are two-third college graduates. Apparently responding to pressure, Rivers last week publicly demanded to know why Johnson had not changed the order of call as all the study groups suggested. If anyone can push the bill through a reluctant election-year Congress, Rivers is the man, but even the possibility of his help is little cause for hope...
...yesterday's clincher, junior righthander Bob Lincoln fired five and two-third innings of hitless ball before the weak Judges reached him. Senior Larry Melfa came in in the seventh and had an easy time, striking out four of the ten men he faced...
...most innocuous-sounding of these amendments is also the most dangerous, since it has a chance, though a very small one, of being ratified. It would permit the state legislatures to amend the Constitution directly, bypassing the Federal structure altogether. Two-third of the legislatures could propose an amendment, which would have only to be ratified by three-fourths of the legislatures to become part of the Constitution. It has been calculated that because of malapportionment, state legislatures representing only fifteen per cent of the people would be able to amend the Constitution under the terms of this proposal...